Each painted en grisaille after Nicolaes Berchem with peasant farmers moving their livestock along a road, one with a ferrier shoeing a donkey, the reverse with either a figure in landscape or a ruin in landscape, flanked by gilt upright bifurcated loop handles with berried terminals, on faux marble bases
14¹⁄₈ in. (35.7 cm.) high

The Property of the Trust of Dr. William P. Harbeson; Sotheby's, New York, 4 April 1972, lot 298 (misidentified as Paris porcelain).
The Estate of William N. Banks, Jr., Georgia.

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For a print of the ferrier subject made by Johannes Visscher after Nicolaes Berchem, see British Museum registration no. 1839,0413.392. For a reproudcition of the other subject, also by Visscher after Berchem, see Gerdien Wuestman, "Nicolaes Berchem in Print: Fluctuations in the Function and Significance of Reproductive Engraving", Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Vol. 24, No. 1, 1996, p. 33, no. 22.